barracuda, Esox Edwards [M.] in Catesby 1771:1 [The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands; ref. 774] Bahamas, Western Atlantic. Catesby 1771 is a rejected work, and unavailable (Opinions 89 and 259) but the appendix by Edwards is available. This species should date to authorship as above and not to Walbaum 1792. Kottelat (2013) treats as a marine and an inland record. •Valid as Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards 1771) -- (Herrera 1896:42 [ref. 39336] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Baughman 1947:280 [ref. 41409], Russell 2003:1810 [ref. 27114], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Nelson et al. 2004:175 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:749 [ref. 28815], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Matamoros et al. 2009:26 [ref. 31241], Wirtz et al. 2007:40 [ref. 30263], Randall 2007:441 [ref. 30952], Béarez 2008:95 [ref. 30486], Fricke 2008:56 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:110 [ref. 30213], García-Hernández et al. 2009:94 [ref. 37265], Matamoros et al. 2009:26 [ref. 31241], Motomura et al. 2010:229 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1037 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:180 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2013:272 [ref. 32706], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:82 [ref. 33341], Kottelat 2013:445 [ref. 32989], Wirtz et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33516], Abdussamad et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33861], Fricke et al. 2014:187 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:309 [ref. 34104], Pinheiro et al. 2015:32 [ref. 34324] with author as Walbaum, Miesen et al. 2016:95 [ref. 34492], Russell in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2869 [ref. 34618], Robertson et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34961], Koeda et al. 2016:105 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:358 [ref. 35805] with author as Catesby [ex Edwards], Golani & Fricke 2018:120 [ref. 36273], Spier et al. 2018:16 [ref. 36103], Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027], Carneiro et al. 2019:295 [ref. 37250], Eagderi et al. 2019:115 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:306 [ref. 36673], Reiner 2019:270 [ref. 38139], Zajonz et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 17 [ref. 38321], Morishita et al. 2020:[7] [ref. 37447], Psomadakis et al. 2020:564 [ref. 37272], Robertson et al. 2020:163 [ref. 38098], Sonoyama et al. 2020:111 [ref. 37637], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:367 [ref. 38945], Durville et al. 2021:315 [ref. 38802], Eduardo et al. 2021:4 [ref. 38817], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:76 [ref. 38844], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2022:247 [ref. 40160], Fermon et al. 2022:229 [ref. 39448], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:237 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:18 [ref. 41326], Zajonz et al. 2022:238 [ref. 40522], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Barrientos et al. 2023:273 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:201 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:127 [ref. 40505], Barcelos et al. 2024:[2] [ref. 40782], Silva et al. 2024:4 [ref. 41512]). Current status: Valid as Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards 1771). Sphyraenidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sea of Japan), except for eastern Pacific (waifs reaching Galápagos Archipelago). IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: brackish, marine.
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